A Fairfax County, Virginia judge granted bond for Kokesh at
$5,000 Friday evening, and local network WJLA reports that the
jailed Second Amendment advocate is expected to be released from
custody Monday afternoon.

Kokesh, 31, was arrested last Tuesday, July 9, after upwards of 20
heavily-armed police officers stormed into his Herndon, VA home
to execute a warrant authorized in response to a video the
activist posted to the website YouTube several days earlier. In
the clip, Kokesh is shown loading a shotgun two blocks from the
White House in defiance of DC’s stringent ban against carrying
firearms within the city.

Kokesh previously attempted to organize a July 4 march into DC in
which hundreds of participants would have carried guns into the
city from neighboring northern Virginia, but that demonstration
was ultimately halted amid a series of warnings from police.

“We will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow
our government to destroy our humanity. We are the final American
Revolution,” he is caught saying in the 23-second clip.
“See you next Independence Day.”

Hours after Kokesh posted the YouTube video on July 4, the United
States Park Police confirmed that they were investigating the
incident. He was arrested just days later and charged with
possession of a Schedule I or Schedule II drug while also in
possession of a firearm. For having both a gun and an undisclosed
amount of hallucinogenic mushrooms in his house, Kokesh could be
convicted and sent back behind bars for a minimum of two years.

Upon being booked last week, Kokesh was reportedly uncooperative
and refused to walk to his arraignment or speak to a judge,
leaving the court to decide initially on holding him without bond. The judge reportedly had a change of
heart before the weekend, however, and agreed to let Kokesh out
from Fairfax County Adult Detention Center on condition the
$5,000 bond be paid — and if Kokesh refrains from possessing
firearms until his case has concluded.